The 2014 Emmy Nominees in The New Yorker

All right, all right, all right. The Emmy nominees were announced on Thursday, and Matthew McConaughey joined the short list of actors who have received both an Oscar and an Emmy nod in the same year. It was a good morning for “Orange Is the New Black” and “True Detective,” and a bloody good morning for “Game of Thrones,” which earned a leading nineteen nominations. Meanwhile, the Clone Club is not happy, and there was conspicuous Twitter umbrage on behalf of Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, “The Americans,” and “The Good Wife.” There will certainly be more to argue about on August 25th, when Seth Meyers hosts the ceremony. Until then, read our past coverage of some of the Emmy nominees:

When Emily Nussbaum reviewed the first season last year, she praised the show for “leaning into and then subverting our expectations of a ‘Caged Heat’ melodrama.” She found the second season even better—“at once more nuanced and more damning.” At Culture Desk, Ruth Margalit wrote about a campaign to improve the conditions at the real jail upon which the show’s fictional one is based.

Rachel Syme’s review of the fourth season for Culture Desk named two kinds of female characters on the show, those who are “deprived of power” and those, like Arya Stark, “who are actualized to make their own destinies.” In Talk of the Town, Sarah Larson attended a screening of the premiere at Lincoln Center featuring a live performance of the show’s theme song.